Welcome

Welcome to these pages. Since winter 2023/24 they are part of my journey away from the commercial social media empires, and my renewed interest in blogging and owning the place where my words are crafted and shown.

Here is a list of the most recent posts:

  • Tango Events Without the Algorithm

    The Vision (2025+) Facebook is no longer the only place to learn who’s dancing where tonight. With the open web (not the closed ad-owned social platforms) you can publish once and have your milongas appear: Below is an updated guide that shows the full journey from publisher ? aggregator ? regional calendar ? dancer. 1…

  • Gemini’s overview of websites about tango culture

    Here is the result of a DeepResearch task with the free version of Gemini using the prompt “Create a list with all websites that deal with tango Argentinian, and offer some insight into the culture, experience, or psychology of the dance. I am not looking for teachers or events.”. Argentine Tango: A Cultural, Experiential, and…

  • Poem

    I didn’t know the man.Never saw his face nor knew his name.Beautiful woman in a close embrace,And suddenly only silence and everyone’s eyes. Most of us didn’t know the guy.Everyone gave all the help they could.And five minutes felt like an hour.The milonguero fighting for his life. We all knew the man.Milonguero, traveling for connection.Finding…

  • Filip’s questions – Part 2

    This is part two of my response to Filip’s questions. Apps & Fediverse Oh, what a bummer this is: there are no super polished native mobile apps for most of Fediverse’s platforms and services. Why? Because creating and maintaining mobile apps is expensive, and most of these fediverse services are made by volunteers. Except, for…

  • Gemini’s list of “all Tango Podcasts”

    Here is the result of a DeepResearch task with the free version of Gemini about “all existing podcasts for tango”. A Comprehensive List of Podcasts Exploring Argentine Tango Argentine tango, a dance and musical genre steeped in history and cultural significance, has garnered a global following. For enthusiasts and those curious to learn more, podcasts…

  • Filip’s questions – Part 1

    Filip from Brnosaires reached out with some questions. Here’s my long answer: Great questions! I will answer 1, 2 and 3 below. Why ActivityPub over Nostr and Matrix? When I was researching options, the protocol was never in focus. It was the core use cases for tango: Events, Connections, Groups, Sharing, Photos. Additionally, we only…

  • Expectation Management

    What we will need to understand is: a non-Facebook place will not be like Facebook. It may look like it, or similar, but it won’t be that. This means. We will lose some things, and need to change some behavior and customs.

  • Getting started with Friendica

    So, you have taken the first step into a friendica server? And you log in, and then what? Here are the first three steps you should take: Step 1: New Members Section After the first log-in, it will ask you for a profile picture. You can do that now, or later. If you skip, you…

  • Tangoverse: connecting Pages/Groups with RSS feeds

    One of the key ideas of a federated and connected Tangoverse is that we can re-use existing web sites and content, and bring that into the social networking apps. The common ways to do that are 1) RSS feeds, 2) ActivityPub extensions and 3) custom code. This post is just about including RSS feeds. RSS…

  • Tangoverse, update 2025-02-09

    I am currently digging deeper into fediverse applications for the tangoverse as described before. It was a great occasion to reset my virtual server and configure it using yunohost, which allows for much more easy management and operations, I hope, than my old setup. Currently in the test bed are the social network apps Friendica,…